Muslims can be our friends

The Quran speaks of all nonbelievers in Allah and Muhammad as ones who wish you harm. This is simply not true of any who are sincerely Christian or Jewish. These separated paths are one toward the one true God. Neither believe in shirk; that God has an associate but that He is one. Both understand the need for the Messiah in that all have sinned. We who seek righteousness are the ones who know our own sin, our inability to become perfect, and even our lack of desire toward holiness. We know of the need of a Savior, whom we call the Messiah. Only those who count themselves right are violent toward others and respond to violence with violence. The violent simply trust themselves rather than God, and the choice is always before us. We are to believe in the one God and trust Him for today and tomorrow as He is with us, and He is for all, even the violent, until that last day.

The faith of Abraham is simply that he believed God is, God loves, and God is active in his life. Today it is the same. We hold all to have been created by that same God and He is intent in seeking those who will believe and obey Him. Those Jewish and Christian believers that Muhammad may have met with are not the same today. These have developed and become more like children of God than before. We are accepted through the Messiah and our hope in His work for each, but not yet have we become perfect. Only in seeking this one God may we find hope today. Not even in perfect following but in active seeking is there faith. Faith is not belief only but must include trust in the invisible for daily life.

Islam rejects the Bible as maliciously distorted and mis-translated. Thereby please forgive me for rejecting the Quran, though I continue to study. The God of the Bible is not the Allah of the Quran. I find that most simply do not read today. These two volumes are not compatable. If one says they are, I trust they do not read one. A steady and faithful reading of both presents two entirely different pathways. One of submission to whatever is understood as being taught by the Qur'an and local teachers; and the Bible as setting each free to be able to seek God and understand righteousness within their own setting but also within a specific criterion of righteousness. There is the Ten Commandments that Islam has neglected. This, of course, is through Moses who is not of the line of Ishmael. It is not dedicated Christians who are the main group of any nation. Neither is it righteousness that prevades any group, club, denomination, government, church, mosque, or institution. Individually do we find faith and thereby respect for all as they are also created by the same God who seeks us even today.

The Quran Surar 2, 23 says to bring a chapter, book, if you doubt the revelation presented to Muhammad. I have seen and felt the unrighteousness of institutionalism in government, churches, and Christian denominations where they worry about their own control and honor above caring for the image of God found in all peoples of the earth. It is for this same reason, I suggest, that the Bible is generally prohibited in Islam controlled countries. The condition of man is such that if we do not deny ourselves, we fall even further than we already have. We need a savior. None are righteous and our reasoning is twisted. This is true individually and corporately. Only the individual can stand and affect the whole. The chapter (book) I present opposed to the revelation to Muhammad is the New Covenant of Jesus the Messiah. The New Testament was written from 700 to 600 years before Muhammad's birth and the Old Testament from 2200 to 1100 years before Muhammad. Taste and see.

This is a difficult conversation but the Quran is simply wrong. True Christians and our elder brothers, that are true to the Jewish faith, do not rejoice when ill befalls you. May the one God bless and care for you in all your endeavors to find that One. Salami. He works and therefore we can work.

Ross Genger

Monroe

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Muslims can be our friends

The Quran speaks of all nonbelievers in Allah and Muhammad as ones who wish you harm. This is simply not true of any who are sincerely Christian or Jewish. These separated paths are one toward the